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  <div class="large-6 columns">'''[[/Review|Coffy]]''' ([[:Category:1973|1973]], [[:Category:USA|USA]]) is a [[:Category:Blaxploitation|Blaxploitation]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] film directed by [[:Category: Jack Hill|Jack Hill]].  
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*'''Contents''': [[/Trailer|Watch Trailer]] | [[/DVD|Available DVDs]] | [[/BluRay|Blu Ray]] | [[/Review|Review]] | [[Coffy (1973)|Poster Art]] | [[/Soundtrack|Soundtrack]] | [[/Press Kit|Press Kit]] | [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069897/ IMDB] | [[/Fun Facts|Fun Facts]] | [[Coffy/The Mack|Double-Feature Poster]] | [[Coffy/Friday Foster Double Feature|Double-Feature DVD]]
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*'''Included in''': [[Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Grindhouse Classics|Quentin Tarantino's Top 20]] | [[GCDb Top 20]] | [[The Baadasssss Blaxploitation Top 20]] | [[Top 10 Baadassss Blaxploitation Soundtracks]] | [[GCDB Titles]]
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* [[Coffy (1973)|Poster Art]]
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* [[/Soundtrack|Soundtrack]]
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===Main Details===
 
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==Taglines==
* No one sleeps when they mess with Coffy!
 
* They call her Coffy and she'll cream you!
 
* She's the "GODMOTHER" of them all.
 
* The Baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad that ever hit town!
 
* She had a body men would die for - and a lot of them did!
 
==Main Details==
* Released in 1973
* Released in 1973
* Color
* Color
* Running Time: 91 min | Germany: 84 min
* Running Time: 91 min | Germany: 84 min
* Production Co: American International Pictures (AIP)
* Production and Distribution Co: [[:Category:American International Pictures|American International Pictures (AIP)]]
* Distribution Co: American International Pictures (AIP) (1973) (USA) (theatrical)
* Written and Directed by Jack Hill
 
* Starring Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui
==Cast and Crew==
* Directed by Jack Hill
* Written by Jack Hill
* Starring Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus, Sid Haig
* Produced by Salvatore Billitteri, Robert Papazian, Samuel Z. Arkoff
* Produced by Salvatore Billitteri, Robert Papazian, Samuel Z. Arkoff
* Original Music by Roy Ayers
* Original Music by Roy Ayers
* Cinematography by Paul Lohmann
* Cinematography by Paul Lohmann
* Film Editing by Chuck McClelland
* Film Editing by Chuck McClelland
* Poster by [[George Akimoto]]


==Film Review==
===Plot Summary===
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*A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
{{Jack Hill}}
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{{Pam Grier}}


Pam Grier is COFFY, a sexy nurse who goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to get back at the drug dealers who got her sister hooked on heroin. I know I know, the premise is very simple, BUT Pam Grier's vengeful personality mixed with her natural sexiness drives this movie over the top! She goes incognito as a trashy hooker to get the two dealers who sold heroin to her little sister. In a timely fashion, Coffy lures them with her sexy voluptuous body and they take her back to their apartment. Once they are into the lovin' mood, Coffy whips out a sawed off shotgun and blows one of the pimps heads off, Exploitation Style! Then she takes care of the other dude by shooting him up with a lethal dose of heroin.
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* No one sleeps when they mess with Coffy!
Coffy tracks down everyone involved with the drug pushers who did her sister wrong. In one great scene, Coffy confronts a junkie girl who buys smack from the drug dealers and she proceeds to get her to talk. That is, until the junkie's lesbian girlfriend comes home. The butch lesbian gets the idea that Coffy is having an affair with her lover, so she goes buckwild on Coffy and they proceed to destroy the house in a fight, but Coffy manages to make it out of there in one piece.
* They call her Coffy and she'll cream you!
 
* She's the "GODMOTHER" of them all.
Coffys not satisfied with that. She wants to find out who the big man is behind the drug dealers around her hood. So she finds out one of the main dealer's contacts is a pimp named King George (Robert Doqui). King George is a pimpin prince (check out the cartoony pimp suit he wears in this, he makes Dolemite look tame!) Coffy goes undercover as a prositute to infiltrate his organization and take out his entourage. One of King George's top clients is a crime kingpin named Vitroni. Coffy is hired by Vitroni for a night of lovin, but Coffy's ready with a little surprise. Vitroni orders her to "Crawl you black bitch", Coffy whips out a gun and tries to shoot him but shes stopped. Vitroni sees this as an assassination attempt by King George and the next day Vitroni's thugs take King George for a little ride. They tie him to the back of the car and drag him. This has to be the best "man dragged behind car" sequences ever. Its simply outrageous and funny! King George gets dragged around like a ragdoll. Later on, Coffy and one of King George's prostitutes (whos jealous of Coffy) have one of the best onscreen catfights of all time. Coffy puts razor blades in her fake afro before the fight, and when the white hooker goes to grab her head theres blood everywhere!
* The Baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad that ever hit town!
* She had a body men would die for - and a lot of them did!
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This is probably Jack Hill's most famous film and he again manages to weave a great Exploitation story with cool characters and depth. Watch for an appearance by Hill regular Sid Haig as one of Vitroni's thugs. This film is the definition of Exploitation Cinema. It has everything, especially the over the top-cartoonish violence that just gets your adrenaline going.
*One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite films. Pam Grier later starred in [https://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Jackie_Brown Jackie Brown] with co-star [[Sid Haig]] who appears as a judge in the film. It also featured music from the Coffy soundtrack.  


'''Reviewed by [[User:PopeyePete|Popeye Pete]] - 5/25/07'''
*In 2024 Quentin Tarantino opened a coffee shop inside his newly owned [https://www.vistatheaterhollywood.com/ Vista Theater] called "[https://www.instagram.com/pamscoffy Pam's Coffy]" in honor of this film and it's star.</div>


==Featured on==
*[[TCM Underground]]
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Revision as of 16:28, 24 March 2024

Coffy (1973, USA) is a Blaxploitation Crime film directed by Jack Hill.

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Main Details

  • Released in 1973
  • Color
  • Running Time: 91 min | Germany: 84 min
  • Production and Distribution Co: American International Pictures (AIP)
  • Written and Directed by Jack Hill
  • Starring Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui
  • Produced by Salvatore Billitteri, Robert Papazian, Samuel Z. Arkoff
  • Original Music by Roy Ayers
  • Cinematography by Paul Lohmann
  • Film Editing by Chuck McClelland
  • Poster by George Akimoto

Plot Summary

  • A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Taglines

  • No one sleeps when they mess with Coffy!
  • They call her Coffy and she'll cream you!
  • She's the "GODMOTHER" of them all.
  • The Baddest One-Chick Hit-Squad that ever hit town!
  • She had a body men would die for - and a lot of them did!
The Tarantino Connection
  • One of Quentin Tarantino's favorite films. Pam Grier later starred in Jackie Brown with co-star Sid Haig who appears as a judge in the film. It also featured music from the Coffy soundtrack.
  • In 2024 Quentin Tarantino opened a coffee shop inside his newly owned Vista Theater called "Pam's Coffy" in honor of this film and it's star.
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